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Patented Jan. 12, 1932 UNITED STATES- mrnr'o'runa, OI DONOR-A, no'rrme APPARATUS Application fled December 6, 1930. Serial Io. 500,814.

- is of a sim lified construction, no cams, air

or hydrauhc cylinders or other more or less complicated operating parts being required. The botting-bar or rod is rigidly suspended from an overhead track and is re'ciprocated in a horizontal plane in line with the cinder notch or tap-hole from a remote control, the movement toward the furnace being automatic.

The features of novelty and advantage resident in the improved botting machine will become apparent in view of the follow-' ing description taken in conjunction with the drawings, wherein:

Figure 1 is a view in side elevation of the improved botting apparatus, the furnace being shown in section;

Fig. 2 is a top plan'view;

Fig. 3 is a view in section and elevation taken on the line III-III, Fig. 2;

Fig. 4 is a horizontal sectional view taken on the line IV-IV, 3.

The furnace is indicated at 5, the cindernotch or tapping-hole at 6, the usual monkey cooler at 7, the intermediate cooler at 8, and the cinder cooler at 9. One of the furnace columns or pillars which support themantle is shown ad acent but not directly connected with the various parts now to be mentioned.

The bott bar, designated at 12 is removably secured at its one extremity in a coupling union 13 by means of which it is rigidly connected to a bott-bar extension in the form of a pipe, bar or analogous member 14, the latter being removably and adjustably attached to a rigld frame, generally indicated at 15, by means of clamp brackets 16.

The frame 15 is preferably made up of top and bottom channel or angle bars 17 and 18 and side bars 19 which are rigidly braced by corner brackets 20 and cross-bars 21. The frame thus constructed is suspended for horizontal travel by means of trolley wheels 22 on a track member shown in the form of an I-beam 23, the wheel trunnions being mounted in hanger brackets 24. The beam 23 1s supported for vertical adjustment at its forward or furnace end by hanger-bolts 10 ans ded from the coupling flange bolts 10- of t e coupllng flanges between the blowipe 10' and bustle-pipe 10. The hanger-b0 ts 10 extend through a cross-bracket member 100 on the beam 23 and are provided with nuts 100 agamst which the cross-bracket 100 rests. By threading the nuts 100 up or down on the hangar-bolts 10 the beam 23 may be adjusted vertically within the slight limits necessary to permit perfect alinement of the bott-bar with the tap-hole or cinder-notch 6. The other or rear end of the beam 23 is secured to a cast house column 25 or to any other convenient support, the latter end of the beam as here shown resting on a supporting plate 26 which is mounted on brackets 27 secured to the column 25, note Fig. 3. The frame 1'5 is steadied durin travel on the track or beam 23 by means 0 guide brackets 28 which are mounted on the intermediate portion of the frame bars 17 and cooperate with the upper flange of said beam.

It will be noted that the frame 15 may be made of suflicient weight to-efliciently perform the work for which it is adapted and that it travels in a straight line in a horizontal plane with a minimum amount of friction during such travel. If desired, the steadying bracket 28 may be provided with anti-friction rollers or analogous means.

The movement of the frame,15 and botting-bar 1214= toward the furnace is preferably initiated by means of counterwei ht mechanism and the movement from the rnace by means of a handwheel or suitable motive power means, as will now be described.

The top left corner portion of the frame 15 has secured thereto a U-bracket 29 and the one end of a. flexible member 30, which as shown is partly cable and partly chain, is attached to said bracket. This flexible member 30 is brought over toward the furnace along the to of the beam 23 and assed around a gui e pulley or sheave 31, w ich is mounted on the top flange of said beam. From the sheave 31 the flexible member 30 is brought back and passed around guide sheave 32 and then extends back at an acute angle over to and is passed around guide sheave 33, the latter being mounted on a convenient cast house column 34 by means of bracket-plate 35 and side brackets 36. From the sheave 33 the chain portion of the flexible member 30 extends down and is trained around a chain sprocket wheel 37 and then leads back up and around sheave 38 and is connected to flexible member or wire cable 30.

The winding drum 37 is provided with ratchet and pawl mechanism, as at 41, and a hand-wheel 42, the drum and cooperating parts being mounted on the cast house wall or supportmg framework, thus affording remote control.

A further rope or cable 37 is secured to the drum 37 a and is trained up over a sheave 38 and has attached to the end thereof a counterweight 40. r The sheave 38 may be hung from a convenient crane girder or buildin beam 39.

The operation of the apparatus will be readily understood. Assuming that the frame 15 and botting-bar 1214 is in the position shown ready to close the tap-hole or cinder-notch 6. The hand-wheel 42 may be retracted sufliciently to release the pawl 41, thus permitting the counterweight 40 to descend, pulling the frame and bar toward the furnace and driving the bott into the hole 6. To retract the frame 15 and bar 1214, the handwheel is turned in the opposite direction, thus pulling on cable 30- and drawing the counterweight 40 back up to its original position.

my hand.

MARTIN OHARE.

It will be obvious that a motor could be bar mounted on said frame, a track adapted to guide said frame in a substantially straight line toward and from said furnace, a counterweight and connecting cable for advancing said frame and bar into botting position, and

means for retracting said frame and bar from said position.

2. A botting machine comprising, in combination with a furnace, a frame, a bottingbar mounted on'said frame, a track adapted to guide said frame and bar in a substantially straight line toward and from said furnace, a counterweight and connecting cable for advancing said frame and bar into botting position, and a winding drum for retracting said frame and bar from said position.

3. A botting machine comprising, in combination with a furnace, a track beam, a 

